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THE LOGTOWN POST OFFICE was first listed in 1883 when Henry Carre was appointed postmaster. The last mail from Logtown’s Post Office went out in September 1963. Postmistress Lallie S. Wright is shown handing the mall sack to L.C. Cuevas, mail carrier. Photo courtesy of Mrs. Roy Baxter, Sr.
THIS PLEASANT little village church surrounded by a white picket fence and nestled among native trees and shrubs served the Methodist denomination of Logtown. Photo was taken in 1963 before Logtown was razed to make way for the National Aeronautics & Space Administration’s Mississippi Test Operation.
Photo courtesy of Mrs. Roy Baxter.
A PARLOUR GATHERING in the home of the Coney Weston Family of Logtown. Catherine Kennedy, maternal grandmother, Annie K. Weston (mother) seated at piano, and children are Irene, Gertrude and Lucille. Photo taken in 1901. Courtesy of Horatio Weston.
THE VOICE OF THE mill whistle is hushed, and the smoke no longer rises from the stacks of the old Logtown sawmill. The mill crew scattered and resettled In such places as Picayune, Pearlington and Slidell for the most part Photo courtesy of Mrs. Roy Baxter, Sr.


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